Re: Re[2]: [NTG-context] Frames (collection of)

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:04:10 +0200
Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> wrote:

> 
> Friday, October 18, 2002 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> 
> JUM> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:06:12 +0200
> JUM> Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> wrote:
> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I'm working on an extension of tooltips (see attached file) whose
> >> primary goal is for use "instead of" footnotes in interactive
> >> documents.
>  
> >> Suggestions for improvements are more than welcome
> 
> JUM> I really would like to see this feature as part of the core:
> JUM> \setupfootnotes[...,location=tooltip,...]
> 
> JUM> This way one can use the normal \footnote command for a print
> JUM> and interactive version of a document.
> 
> There are at least three things that need to be done to add this
> to the core in a fully ConTeXtish way:
> 
> (1) add frame classes

if you mean something like
\defineframed[<name>]
\setupframed[<name>][...]
\<name>{..text..}

then i think this on the wish list of many ConteXt users.
Commands that currently support framed-parameters could then
support a parameter framedclass=<name>

> (2) add tooltip classes

in the other mail-thread we agree that for tooltips the whole word
should be an active area. IMO, this is not the best solution. If we
can use tooltips for footnotes or bib-entries in the future, those
elements will show a mark/symbol in the text, but for normal tooltips
the problem is that nothing shows the reader of the document that
there is a tooltip available. I think it is not a common practice to
read a document and scan constantly the words with the pointing
device. Thus, there should be also for normal tooltips a symbol or
something else that indicates the tooltip.

Best,
  Jens
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